Dismissal procedures - walkers - elementary

[Anonymous]

I'd like to hear what your school's dismissal process is for walkers. At ours, all kids just run out to the blacktop and there's rarely any staff and no one confirming who is taking anyone home. If a parent is late for some reason, the child would have to walk around to the front of the building to get back in. Hopefully there's another parent there who can help; otherwise a 1st grader would be on their own to figure it out. How does your school do it?

[Anonymous]

At my school, the walkers get dismissed with the car-riders.

Also at my school, there are children who walk home without a parent. Are there no children at your school who walk home without a parent?

[Anonymous]

I've never not seen staff during school dismissal.

[Anonymous]

Our school uses a number system, where all walkers and car riders are assigned a number and parents are given a card with that number on it that they can either hold (if they are a walker) or display in their car if they are picking up car-riders. All of the kids wait in the cafeteria (supervised by adults and patrols) and then are walked individually by an adult to their parent/car. They dismiss independent walkers (kids who walk home without an adult) first.

[Anonymous]

Ok, nothing to add here, except that, having just seen The Walking Dead, the title of this thread is awesome.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Our school uses a number system, where all walkers and car riders are assigned a number and parents are given a card with that number on it that they can either hold (if they are a walker) or display in their car if they are picking up car-riders. All of the kids wait in the cafeteria (supervised by adults and patrols) and then are walked individually by an adult to their parent/car. They dismiss independent walkers (kids who walk home without an adult) first.

Is this at a public school?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Our school uses a number system, where all walkers and car riders are assigned a number and parents are given a card with that number on it that they can either hold (if they are a walker) or display in their car if they are picking up car-riders. All of the kids wait in the cafeteria (supervised by adults and patrols) and then are walked individually by an adult to their parent/car. They dismiss independent walkers (kids who walk home without an adult) first.

WOW, really. I just told my son not to leave the playground with anyone but his parents and it works out fine.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Our school uses a number system, where all walkers and car riders are assigned a number and parents are given a card with that number on it that they can either hold (if they are a walker) or display in their car if they are picking up car-riders. All of the kids wait in the cafeteria (supervised by adults and patrols) and then are walked individually by an adult to their parent/car. They dismiss independent walkers (kids who walk home without an adult) first.

Is this at a public school?

Yes, an MCPS school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Our school uses a number system, where all walkers and car riders are assigned a number and parents are given a card with that number on it that they can either hold (if they are a walker) or display in their car if they are picking up car-riders. All of the kids wait in the cafeteria (supervised by adults and patrols) and then are walked individually by an adult to their parent/car. They dismiss independent walkers (kids who walk home without an adult) first.

That sounds like it takes a lot of extra time, effort, and personnel.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Our school uses a number system, where all walkers and car riders are assigned a number and parents are given a card with that number on it that they can either hold (if they are a walker) or display in their car if they are picking up car-riders. All of the kids wait in the cafeteria (supervised by adults and patrols) and then are walked individually by an adult to their parent/car. They dismiss independent walkers (kids who walk home without an adult) first.

That sounds like it takes a lot of extra time, effort, and personnel.

It takes 10 minutes.

[Anonymous]

For how many kids? And how many adults do the walking back and forth? Also, what do people do who only occasionally pick their child up by car?

[Anonymous]

My school uses the same system with numbered cards and kids in the cafeteria that the PP mentioned.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:For how many kids? And how many adults do the walking back and forth? Also, what do people do who only occasionally pick their child up by car?

I don't know how many kids - maybe 150ish? About 6 adults seem to do the walking each day (different people every day). Anyone who ever picks up walking or by car gets a number at the open house before school starts in August. If you only use it once or twice, fine. It sounds complex but goes really quickly, and I think it's worth it if it means that no one is ever unaccounted for. They also walk each group of bus riders out with an adult after they've taken attendance in the bus line, so no one ever misses the bus.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My school uses the same system with numbered cards and kids in the cafeteria that the PP mentioned.

Maybe it's the same school.

[Anonymous]

So there is a line of over 100 cars waiting at the end of the school day? I think at my school the parents would actually get annoyed with this and start pciking up around the corner etc. How many kids at MCPS don't get on the right bus each day past day 1? I am impressed the school devotes so much staff to it. 6 teachers to handle the non-bus kids and 1 teacher per bus taking attendance. I guess the busses wait while discrepancies are figured out. Where is Bobby? I think he left early? No I think he came back..